New On Spicie Foodie

Early on in our relationship, my husband would ask questions regarding the Mexican foods I grew up eating. I would enthusiastically tell him both about those I ate as a child in Mexico and the ones my family continued to eat in our new adopted American home. Often times I would recount the special memories that those foods aroused in me. Unbeknown to me, apparently, I would often add the following phrase, "Do you know what makes (this) food taste even better? If you drizzle some fresh lime juice and sprinkle some ground chile pepper over it."
One day my husband said to me, "I'm beginning to think that Mexicans like to put lime and chile pepper on everything." I immediately, and with a defensive tone, told him he was wrong and that Mexican food was much more than that. We both laughed at what I had said and my husband then pointed out that I always mentioned adding lime and chile to so ... read more

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The day a food blogger gets his or her first acceptance notice from a food porn website is a very happy one. We do a happy dance, smile, pat ourselves on the back, tell our family, friends, and readers about it. The day a food blogger gets his or her first denial notice from a food porn website is not a happy one. Perhaps they ... read more